Brolly

The light setup, using a single brolly and A4 paper as the reflector. I found that the Jinbei strobe is actually more bang for the buck than the branded Elinchrom and Bowens. We all know that most of the strobes are made in China and India anyway. I cancelled my Elinchrom D-lite kit and obtained the Jinbei kit instead, so far so good, keep my finger crossed. The Milestone series do not provide auto power dumping feature, on the other hand, the Pilot series activate auto power dumping without flashing.

To my surprise there is an EMI problem with the flash, my laptop can sometimes trigger the radio receiver unit of Milestone flash. Nevertheless, this only happens once or twice.

Power repeatability is very commendable, verifying with my Sekonic meter, I am more than pleased with its performance, better than plus minus 1/10 stop. The only thing that needs further investigation will be the consistency of the flash colour temperature .

Note that I did not use a parabolic reflector on the strobe head, it is currently out of stock. :(